Il-Papa lill-Ġappuniżi: Magħkom, nitlob li l-armi nukleari ma jintużaw qatt iktar
19/11/2019Pope Francis sent a video message to the people of Japan in the lead-up to his visit there at the end of this week, noting that they are a people who knows well the “suffering caused by war.” The pope will visit Japan from November 23 to 26.
“Together with you, I pray that the destructive power of nuclear weapons will never be unleashed again in human history.”
The Holy Father reiterated the Church’s teaching, based on the indiscriminate effects of nuclear weapons, which bring the death of non-combatants as well as military personnel: “The use of nuclear weapons is immoral.”
As the Catechism notes for one of the conditions for a war to be considered “just”:
– the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated… Kompli aqra »